Street Photography: An In-Depth and Complete Guide
What you'll learn
- How to make consistent, powerful, meaningful street photographs
- How to find your style and your own unique artistic voice, photographically
- How to tell a story with a documentary-style, street photograph
- When and how to engage with your subjects on the street
- How to increase your confidence while shooting on the street
- How to predict photographic opportunities on the street
- How to light meter with a manual film camera confidently
- Understanding how to read complicated, world-class street photographs
- How to zone-focus with a manual focus lens
- What each different lens size and type does, as well as the difference between vintage and newer lenses.
- How to utilise compositional elements and an overall balance to strengthen a photograph
- How to use editing to enhance the mood and the story and the experience of a photograph
- Understanding the ethical and moral issues within street photography
- How to avoid conflict when taking street photographs
- How to gather inspiration and generate ideas from various sources, whether it be via travelling, reading photography books, watching movies, etc.
- How to edit, print, and make books out of your photographs
- The difference between street photography, documentary photography, and photojournalism
Requirements
- You will need to have a beginner's understanding of how to use a camera. The rest you will learn during the course.
Description
This in-depth street photography course is designed to teach you EVERYTHING you need to know about the craft.
It’s my intention to help you find and refine your own unique artistic voice through the art of street photography and pass on all of the knowledge and experience that I’ve acquired so that you feel inspired and confident enough to consistently create powerful, meaningful, interesting street photographs.
The course is broken up into 9 chapters, which is broken up into even smaller sub-chapters along the way, so that you can tick off each lesson as you go.
The 9 overall chapters are:
Introduction and definition
Philosophies, practices and examples of great street photographs
Tactics, tips and settings on the street
Gear
Styles and approaches
Problems and common things you'll encounter on the street
Inspiration
Post-production (editing, printing and book making)
The future of street photography
There is no comprehensive film school or art school type of experience that teaches ‘Street Photography’ yet, and although there are lots of types of online content about the genre, personally none of my experiences with that stuff so far have offered a COMPLETE overview of every single thing you might need or want to know as you’re delving further and further into the craft.
Usually, it’s more-so just pockets of information that you’e digging up, bit by bit. So I wanted to consolidate all of that information and knowledge and put it in one place, in a structured, informative, exciting way for you to watch and enjoy. It’s everything you need to know, distilled down into the key takeaways and delivered in a way that is designed to inspire you and take you to that place where you’re making your best work.
So, if you want to fast-track your learning journey, dial up your confidence in the craft, and start making the work you know you can make - then let’s do it.
By the end of this course you will be able to show yourself and the world HOW YOU SEE the world. You will be well and truly on your way to finding and expressing your own unique artistic voice - you will be so inspired and excited by street photography that you will be bursting at the seams to get out there and explore the world with your camera, and start capturing timeless moments.
Who this course is for:
- This course is for beginner or intermediate photographer's who have an interest in street photography, documentary photography, or photojournalism
Instructor
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 4 Reviews
- 28 Students
- 1 Course
Troy Baird is an Australian Film Director by trade, working mostly in the documentary space. For over a decade he has travelled all over the globe working on documentaries, meanwhile tacking on months and months of accumulative, personal, dedicated Street Photography trips to these international projects.
Having his creative career structured in this way, with such a diverse set of visual experiences, has meant that he has had to adapt and pivot and always evaluate the best approach to making great Street Photography work in all of these varied and dynamic locations like Cuba, India, Nepal, the Philippines, Japan, Morocco, all over Europe, New York, New Zealand and South East Asia.
It has been Troy’s main passion and focus to always add the the conversation of Street Photography and move it forward. His 9 hour Udemy course is the culmination of reading over 200 books on the craft, absorbing all of the content available on the craft like movies, documentaries, all other online classes, youtube content, podcasts and conversation with fellow Street Photographers, as well the 10 years of physical experience shooting on the street. His intention is the pass all of that knowledge on in the most useful, meaningful way possible to creatives that are excited to find their own unique artistic voice and express themselves through the art of Street Photography.
Troy's instagram is @troyplease